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Stockholm-based electronic project Me & Melancholy returns with FEM, a deeply personal fifth album that refuses to stay in one emotional place. Across eleven tracks, Peter Ehrling moves between euphoric synthpop, industrial rhythms, post-punk tension and atmospheric melancholy, creating a record where celebration and loneliness can exist side by side.…

Horizon Beyond captures a strangely difficult kind of sadness in “Quiet Kind of Lost,” the kind that does not arrive with a dramatic collapse, but settles into everyday life until you realize you no longer recognize yourself. Released September 4, 2026, the atmospheric alternative pop single moves through dream-pop textures…

Junonuno turn up the pressure on “I Want It (DJ Juno Mix),” transforming their 2025 track into a harder, more immersive club-floor experience. Released September 4, 2026, the remix arrives as the duo continues moving deeper into the clubbing world following their Main Stage appearance at Nowadaze Festival. The track…

Dave Hill Jr. turns the search for inspiration into something tender and deeply ordinary with “Chasing Stars.” Rather than romanticizing the creative process, the Seattle singer-songwriter places it right in the middle of everyday life, where there are children running around, practical responsibilities waiting and barely enough time to sit…

French composer, keyboardist and producer Nadjib Krim brings disco’s glittering surface together with a much more unsettled emotional core in “Without You.” Based in the Austin, Texas area, Krim moves freely across pop, soul, funk, rock and jazz, with melody and harmony anchoring his genre-hopping approach. Here, though, he leans…

Lyndo Jaco turns the uncertainty of chasing a win into something gritty, warm and slightly surreal with “Feeling.” A solo singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Jaco draws from the Southern and hard rock of the past. The song opens into grinding, gritty guitars, their rough textures giving the track a grounded heaviness.…

After three Grammy nominations and decades spent producing, engineering, and making music, Anthony Casuccio knows his way around a studio. But “The Man That I Am,” released August 28, 2026, is more interested in capturing something honest. The Alt/Pop single turns the familiar tension between love and independence into an…

Mississauga, Canada artist Zellie Bride captures the strange loneliness that can arrive after a good night out on “Coming Undone,” released September 3, 2026. Built around the emotional whiplash of going from surrounded by people to suddenly being alone, the song finds Bride turning an ordinary quiet moment into something…

Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Anton Lewis looks backward without getting stuck in the past on Someday // Yesterday, an album built from songs that have followed him through different chapters of his life. Released September 5, 2026, the record brings together compositions first written in his late teens and early twenties alongside…

1. Your roots can often shape your journey. Can you share a story or moment from your early life that had a significant impact on your path into music? D.D.R.: I grew up in the 1980s, so maybe that gives me an unfair advantage or just a different appreciation for…